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Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list?

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On Thu, 28 May 2026 09:11, Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>networking has always been an important part of building a Linux 
>distribution, and nowadays in the world of VMs and containers and many 
>different ways to bring up a network this is a constant cause of 
>friction between packages. the different ways of building firewalls 
>plays a big role.
>
>otoh, we do not have a general mailing list for network issues. We have 
>debian-ipv6 and debian-firewall, the latter not having had ontopic 
>traffic since 2022.
>
>Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Or is the networking topic 
>so important that network issues should be discussed on debian-devel 
>proper?
>
Should this only discuss technical decisions, or also provide user 
support?
>Independently of this decision, is it time now to sunset the 
>debian-ipv6 and the debian-firewall mailing list due to the low 
>traffic? Both ipv6 and firewalls are no longer a corner topic inside 
>networking, both topics have become intrinsic part of networking in 
>Linux.
>
Seems sensible to me.

best,

werdahias

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Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-28 11:40 +0200
  Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Matthias Geiger <werdahias@riseup.net> - 2026-05-28 13:00 +0200
    Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2026-05-28 13:30 +0200
      Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> - 2026-05-28 22:20 +0200
  Re: Should we have a debian-network mailing list? "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2026-05-29 10:50 +0200

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